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ˈcounter-ˌforce, ˈcounterforce
[counter- 2, 3.]
a. A force acting in opposition to another; contrary, opposing, or resisting force.
1609Bp. W. Barlow Answ. Nameless Cath. 168 By counterforce of both their strengths (the one impelling, the other resisting) the Clouds breake into Thunder. 1817Coleridge Lay Serm. 405 A counter-force is wanting. a1859De Quincey War Wks. III. 263 A counterforce to greater evils. 1871Morley Voltaire (1886) 181 There was no counter-force, for the mass of the people was dumb, ignorant, and fettered.
b. attrib.; esp. denoting strategy based on retaliation against military forces or bases.
1955Bull. Atomic Sci. Mar. 100/3 Our strategy would be counterforce strategy, not counter city strategy. 1959Economist 14 Feb. 590/2 The counter-force strategy was based on the assumption that the Russians' own bases could be overwhelmed virtually at a single blow. 1966Schwarz & Hadik Strategic Terminology 40 Counterforce capability is that required to destroy enough of an enemy's nuclear striking capability in order to make his retaliation tolerable. |